╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[leaden dagger]

You didn't specify your keys.json probably

[eternal sapphire]

Yea, Working on it

[white sentinel]

Try opening on the steam itself

[shrewd rampart]

Was this just updated? Are we being listened on 😄
Why's there an extra space line... pls fix.

[white sentinel]

Damn, it is A-life 2.0 in my language

[crisp bolt]

[formal bronze]

Very nice, how did you do this?

[frozen anvil]

What lang?

[white sentinel]

Turkish

[frozen anvil]

Ah yeah they must have not updated Turkish steam page

[torpid talon]

oopsiee, i overdid it

[split coyote]

Bro horror is a blatant fucking lie

[junior igloo]

idk those tin cans are loud af and made me jump a few times

[gusty olive]

the extra space has been there since the change, they just forgor

[frozen anvil]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[crisp bolt]

"Immersive survival mechanics like hunger(little impact), Sleeping(goes away on its own never needing to sleep)

[frozen anvil]

Yeah, wahts up, is sleeping bugged?

[crisp bolt]

I have not slept once in game and I'm at 30 hours played

[tardy tundra]

i dont think there is sleep need

[crisp bolt]

[velvet pewter]

Just wait for mods, nothing much to do but wait for now

[tardy tundra]

the energy drink just gives stamina

[low torrent]

how much time passes when sleeping? is it just night to day and day to night or a set amnt of hours

[frozen anvil]

I got the sleep status effect, the tutorial told me that I had to sleep, and then it went away

[desert crescent]

I dont see it?

[frozen anvil]

In Turkish

[shrewd rampart]

Less sleep = More weapon sway
More sleep = Less weapon sway

Just a random idea that first came to my mind, probaly not a good one.

[leaden dagger]

Skips to next morning

[white sentinel]

I have to see how it was before

[eternal sapphire]

Pretty easy really, just added line "ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = SimpleFoodGenerator" to the Flesh cfg. Ill see about new item generators next

[white sentinel]

We have both the advanced artifical thing and A-life 2.0 in turkish

[desert crescent]

yeah sleepy should be less accurate or something,

[pearl lichen]

hmm, i ve had to sleep 2-3 times a day to pass an entire day before

so not sure if thats accurate

[tardy tundra]

yeah that was some other bullet point

[fallen umbra]

I got a message on the HUD saying I needed to sleep, along with a waning crescent moon icon, but it disappeared quickly and never showed up again.

[tardy tundra]

maybe they scrapped it?

[leaden dagger]

I was trying to reach the night to sneak in somewhere and it just skipped entirely the bloody thing so I assumed it went to morning directly

[frozen anvil]

Has anyone else had the bug where the ||guy in the bed under the monolith member is floating?||

[wheat nebula]

is it true, is gamma just the real stalker2 this whole time?

[frozen anvil]

Stalker 3

[velvet pewter]

Feel like they got scared of casuals getting overburdened by too many effects. Either ways i think mods can fairly easily add immersive sleep etc. If only they fix a-life, modders will pour their heart to make it a great game

[prime juniper]

Yup

[shrewd rampart]

That's a good point, kinda forgot there's no way to choose how long you want to sleep for compared to CoP huh? 🤔

[wheat nebula]

honestly is gamma could somehow solve needind to load different maps i would just quit on stalker2

[fallen umbra]

I don’t know, I don’t have a screenshot. It happened when I moved to the second area, in a stash inside a garage where there’s a cat-like creature trapped inside

[jolly fjord]

I don't know if I'm not playing right or something, but Veteran run seems impossible to get any upgrade on your gear because of how little coupons you get for doing most of the game's content + Repair.
Any mod for this that doesn't break the balance of the game too bad but also doesn't mean fixing my low level armor is like 10 000 coupons?

[desert crescent]

yeah this happened to me too

[velvet pewter]

Just enjoy it for now. Gamma is certainly a better experience, but its a different game altogether. Wait for S2 mods, in few weeks it should be good to play

[tardy tundra]

i am only in for the new story hehe
at this point if you like "niche" gameplay (anything that is not casual) you sort of have to rely on mods

[frozen anvil]

Me too

[crisp bolt]

sleep probably bugged

happened to me too

[frozen anvil]

This release reminds me of Cyberpunk, but because the world is so empty there's few opportunities to see how buggy npc's are

[formal bronze]

Item incompatibility is raising quickly... We need to find a way to make same file modifications coexist

[shrewd rampart]

I've only seen them be pretty oblivious, and behave weirdly after reloads more so than when you first encounter them.

[wheat nebula]

i want to like this game, i promise

[shrewd rampart]

I ran through the military base like 20 times while testing settings, so seen a bunch of NPC, mostly out of my interest too- I used to work on AI afterall.

[spring coral]

Cyberpunk shadow at it again

[desert crescent]

derpy player shadows comes with stalker its a packaged deal

[frozen anvil]

Can we rename this channel "stalker 2 complaining"

lmfao

[short slate]

WE NEED GRONK!!!!!

[gusty olive]

will it even be possible with current systems to have an experience like og games with AI? like when stalkers wander across the entire map, or you meet the same ones much later, or find them dead? as far as i can tell fuck no

[frozen anvil]

yes

[tardy tundra]

well, from complaining there be mods!!

[gusty olive]

press X

[formal bronze]

It is uncertain as of now, from code review and data dumps I could maybe give you a mild yes

[slim anvil]

Has anyone made a mod to make artifacts visible and not just "appear" when you get basically right on top of them?

[frozen anvil]

That's how it's always worked...

So no

[exotic lagoon]

if you could see them why even use a detector

[slim anvil]

cold beep from further out and indicate the direction you need to head I guess

I swear in anomaly I can see them from much further out

[smoky flax]

definitely need a mod that tells you what ammo you switched too, like a text popup

[jolly fjord]

That's because you need higher level detectors

[leaden dagger]

Just get a better detector? You're expecting the basic echo detector to do the same as a bear or svarog?

[jolly fjord]

Yeah, this is complaining about the worst detector having shit mechanics

[exotic lagoon]

it's crazy that it doesn't show this in the weapon wheel even

[slim anvil]

oh lol maybe I'm just being dumb mb

[jolly fjord]

it shows the icon of the ammo, so if you can tell what the ammo vs AP is, you can tell

[frozen anvil]

Oooo I like this. Ammo box images also need to be much more distinct.

[leaden dagger]

Check the color on the ammo box, the white is the basic round, the black is the AP version

[smoky flax]

Im playing no hud so the only way i can tell is if i unload /reload in my inv

[exotic lagoon]

yeah i "check" my mags by opening the weapon wheel, janky but it keeps my screen clearer

[formal bronze]

Haven't seen it created but I've seen variables related to it, so it might be possible and easy to create

[leaden dagger]

Bloody hell about time and that wasn't even the gamelite folder

[smoky flax]

appreciate all the work

[thin gorge]

Faster than light

[leaden dagger]

Almost 9 hours waiting

And I'm still missing content out of _stalker2

[thin gorge]

https://tenor.com/view/einstein-gif-18349346

[leaden dagger]

But now the BP_L_Flashlight_01 opens without any bickering in UAssetGUI, so that's really good progress

I think we might be cooking

[wheat nebula]

we need a placeable stash mod asap

[wheat nebula]

fuken ell

[thin gorge]

3d pda first + free look mod

[wheat nebula]

yeah thats true

[flint flicker]

No, they are separate bundles. If you want longer days, thats 1. If you want increase quest rewards, that's another in addition.

[acoustic jay]

@rain finch Hey man, I know this is sudden, but could you make a quick mod to make Skif's pistol weigh 0? The fact we can't store it is annoying, and at the very least, we get some carry weight back for a weapon we don't use at all late game.

[tropic swift]

Would it be doable to make the player's headlight actually cast light that interacts with the scene and casts shadows? The current one just looks like a filter that goes through walls n shit.

[frail plover]

Someone here is trying to mod the flashlight but it’s been a pain

[leaden dagger]

I think I might actually have cracked it

[sand niche]

You are an absolute legend, thank you for your hard work! I am in the same boat, luckily I am a stubborn shit and I haven't made it far in the game so starting a new game is not a big deal!

[leaden dagger]

Just need to repack the bloody thing

[frozen anvil]

quick and dirty version of what u did?

[thin gorge]

Since you there, please delete eyes adaptation

[leaden dagger]

Can't do it, sorry I like it

[thin gorge]

Pffff, mods, ban this dude !

[frozen anvil]

I am going to make a mod that makes eye adaptation more intense and not tell anyone how it's done 🙂

[sand niche]

hide it inside an another essential mod so everyone thinks they're going crazy

[viscid dagger]

can we request mods over here ?

[frail plover]

Were you finally able to get stuff into the engine?

[frozen anvil]

someone give this person a prize

[frail plover]

Huge if so

[thin gorge]

Yeah @leaden dagger is taking every request

[leaden dagger]

Not getting in into a project 5.1.1, but properly opening up the export nodes without exploding everything, yes

[frail plover]

Hell yeah!

[leaden dagger]

I wish that both sides of your pillow be eternally uncomfortably hot

[pliant ermine]

so far all the mods are just adjustments to values/ configs right?

[shrewd rampart]

Coughs I think you might be able to find post process settings to use to "fix" exposure somewhere in there :p There's a few hundred CVARS for it. If you want to play around with it haha.

@source = CVAR dump mod somewhere on Nexus.

[leaden dagger]

Nah that ain't it. You need to actually the postprocess profiles found in the .uassets

[shrewd rampart]

Dev console to preview what it would look like potentially, and then a way to force it once you know what you're looking for, step by step process most likely.

[leaden dagger]

Turning it on/off is easy, but the speed up/down is all driven by postprocess volumes which need to be overwritten

[ebon obsidian]

please I need to see the light of the monolith and burn my eyes out of my skull

[shrewd rampart]

If there's local post process volumes it does get quite a lot more complicated than that, I guess as a starting point to see what it would take- would be Post Processing priority settings and figure out how much priority do the volumes get by raising that up globally. Since Volumes are local, Post Process commands are global an affect the camera in all the way. So imho, min and maxes would have to be pretty strict for exposure, without disabling it, and for it to be higher priority than the volumes to test properly. - No I won't be jumping into working on any of that.

[winged hemlock]

Anyone have the same problem?
Flickering shadows on the grass.

[calm lake]

is the mod folder in gamepass the same as for steam, when you browse through local files of the game? I got the correct folder, but I'm like, is it actually applying the mod or not? 😅

[frozen anvil]

Yes but it's named GDKWindows or something instead of Win64

If the path is all the same except for 1 folder then you're good.

[daring notch]

Used these tweaks and tweaked everything for my hardware. Actually makes me game run way worse. Ended up just getting rid of it and it ran much smoother

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17

[calm lake]

like, (I named the folder for the installation stalker 2 cause I thought it was the game folder but turns out it was the library folder name). This is where my pak files live.

[shrewd rampart]

When I was testing this out, I one-by-one removed things that were taking the most performance, and this was pretty much 80-90% of that performance loss, so you can try removing that.

r.OneFrameThreadLag=0

[daring notch]

I tried that as well

[calm lake]

or is there something extra I need to do in the GDKWindows folder?

[daring notch]

I got a really beefy pc so I just wanted to see if I could squeeze anything out from it.

Running a 4090

[calm lake]

my 4070ti seems to be handling it fairly well. just got a massive frame drop in the first village

[cedar gorge]

is there a mod out yet that makes movement speed slower?

[shrewd rampart]

There's things you can remove from there for sure, experiment with it, restarts are super fast now with the no shader compiler shenanigans. When I was doing line by line tests I thought I was going to fall asleep. Now it's lightning fast to change something and reload.

[shrewd rampart]

What CPU though?

[daring notch]

amd ryzen 9 7900x3d

[frozen anvil]

I:\XboxGames\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2- Heart of Chornobyl (Windows)\Content\Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods

That's my dir

[daring notch]

Running at a constant 120 fps on high. I don't see much a difference with everything epic but it runs around a stable 110 fps and in the one town it might dip to 90 fps

[kind notch]

Doesn’t removing shader compilation cause way more stutters?

[frozen anvil]

120 with framegen?

[shrewd rampart]

Mhm, native image quality I believe?

[daring notch]

Yes I have framegen on

[shrewd rampart]

I have 80-110 depending on area with a 3060 and a Ryzen 9 5900x on medium to high settings. 🤔 Heavily meticulously optimized though

[random canopy]

I'm awaiting to someone confirm or debunk that. Thanks!

[daring notch]

also running 64gb of ram then the gpu has 24Gb of vram

if that matters much

[sudden summit]

waking up to a few new mods and few updates is great 😄

[queen delta]

I have shit cpu r9 7950x3d and 4090, ram 32gb.
My fps aren't that stable, but I think I am getting 120ish fps now.
Eating all my ram and not really using cpu.
I have installed that s2 optimazer that is top on nexus, don't recall the name.

[frozen anvil]

that is literally one of the best gaming cpu's on the market...

[queen delta]

Not that cpu tbh

[somber fractal]

I get a solid 120fps on FSR Native AA with everything on Ultra

No issues as of yet

[queen delta]

But yeah, I had a lot of dips and lag without that mod for optimization.

[frozen anvil]

highly recommend switching to xess native - looks way better and perf is same or better

[nocturne crag]

If you are wondering about the sprint mod or longer days mod, they are incompatible and Im trying to find a solution.
does anyone already have one?
Ive tried editing the day length mod with the variable changes in the sprint mod, and repacking, it doesnt seem to work.

[queen delta]

I am aiming to buy r9 9950x3d on premiere but I don't think this will happen xD
Hope it would help with s2

[hoary scaffold]

Is GAMMA out yet for Stalker 2?

[frozen anvil]

if you OC it might be a little better in towns

[shrewd rampart]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message
For most of us here, I don't think it makes any different to stutters. Since you're in-game still using some sort of cached shaders. What is important though is when you'll be updating a gpu driver or the game in the future, to have your precompiled shaders compile at least once. And for your Shader Cache on the GPU/Driver to be at least 10GB probably. The every single time you restart the game, to compile shaders is.... technically a blunder and redundant because they won't change much if at all since your last gameplay sessions.

[queen delta]

I had "even longer days" mod and after s2 opti installed it bugfed out and doesn't work

[queen delta]

I don't. This cpu is so unstable and I don't want to bsod again

[nocturne crag]

longer days by itself works with s2opti for me

[queen delta]

Maybe I need reinstall it or make it above s2opti

[sudden summit]

where are thoe shaders saved?

[shrewd rampart]

TSR gang here for now, because it's the only thing that fixes parts of my flickerings 😄

[nocturne crag]

s2 opti starts with ~ so im assuming its loaded first

and that works

[queen delta]

Yes. I dunno. Maybe reinstall will fix it. Will check it when at home

[nocturne crag]

really just trying to get longer sprint and longer days to work.

[somber fractal]

Tried it, but it's to blurry for me. I like the sharpness that FSR gives you.

[queen delta]

I have a longer sprint working, if I get home I will get you to what I have.
I think it was something with 3 files in it that was 25% cost redux and 50 and 75 somewhat

[nocturne crag]

yeah you only use one of the files though. If i remove longer days the sprint works, and vice cerse, but I tried to merge them, and im not sure why it didnt work

[queen delta]

I am not into modding yet. Maybe some other mods from grok had got into the way of these

[nocturne crag]

this isnt some crazy modding though, its just some parameter changes in a text file. Is why im not sure why it doesnt work, unless the repacking isnt working right

Anyone know if there is a file name length limit on the paks?

[queen delta]

Any slashes in the way or other comas? Maybe the packing was corrupted

[nocturne crag]

you know what, ill try unpack and repack a mod I know works. Then if it all of a sudden doesnt, theres the issue I guess

[queen delta]

Sure

[shrewd rampart]

Unknown to determine exact location and file, and the contents of it.
But if I were to guess a cache file like everything else is stored in %localappdata% - Stalker 2 - Saved folder
And sometimes it pulls that compilation data from other sources, if you delete that entire folder, while having the mod on. So it's got more DDC somewhere on storage, or accessed directly somewhere- because if it wouldn't exist at all- you'd get a global shader cache error instead of the game loading at all.

[sudden summit]

right, I jsut seen someone mentioning it weghts about 500mb for him and that it icnreases in size after a while of playing so I was thinkin people already lcoated it

thyis file mby then ?

[shrewd rampart]

Could very well be, you can turn it on and off I guess at your discretion. Saves you more precious time not having to go through that screen while testing things for mods or graphic settings than it saves you space. If the file gets too big, you disable the mod once, precompile again normally -> shouldn't be as big anymore in theory, if you delete it and compile again.

[shrewd rampart]

That seems like it is one of them, ye

[nocturne crag]

well damn, after some quick testing, repacking a pak kills the mod, so Im doing something wrong on a basic level it seems

Guess in need to go over the documentation again

not sure why, I can unpack them and edit, but repacking isnt working

[frozen anvil]

Well that was a lame encounter. Just got mugged, and I decided to actually pay them instead of fighting. ||They try to kill me anyway, and I still lose the Koupons. How lame.||

[calm lake]

oh thanks, that would explain it

[leaden dagger]

@thin gorge you fucking asshole
It has begun

[pliant ermine]

lmao good luck burn

[wicked ruin]

wait but fr it doesn't have cigs?

[nocturne crag]

who needs cigs when you can smoke pda's?

[frozen anvil]

bro just add cigarettes

[wicked ruin]

maybe I am too gammafied to remember if stalker even had cigs bruh

[molten cargo]

theres no rank system in pda, and no stalker counter on hud, what makes you think there will be cigarettes? 😂

[frozen anvil]

good point! @leaden dagger can you please add a faction relationship system too? you can do the cigarettes first if u want tho

[leaden dagger]

[acoustic obsidian]

Alife is broken too, can you fix it @leaden dagger ?

[visual falcon]

atmosfear 4 when

[calm lake]

this is why I need a modpack 🤣 I just added the mod to remove the beeping noise when near anomalies, and it's also not working...

[gloomy crater]

also the ability to change faction

[sudden summit]

how do we even know at this point if mods conflicts?

[shrewd rampart]

This is why I want logs 🙃

[thin gorge]

https://tenor.com/view/haha-so-funny-gif-27253208

[shrewd rampart]

Personally, when I am making a modpack for myself atm, I am unpaking ALL of the mods I want to use and note down which files they modify. - And then redflag whatever has the same filename across the mods -> Then Diff and make a merge then pak that instead.

[slim anvil]

I'm surprised they didn't yoink stalker anomaly's mutant skinning/harvesting. Seems like a great thing to do in the newest title. odd choices

[sudden summit]

too m,uch for me who has 2 hours daily to play xD

[shrewd rampart]

First reaction to killin a mutant in Stalker 2 for non Stalker players is... ->

Oh I can't loot it or do anthing with it? Why should I bother then?

[exotic jasper]

cant deny i tried skinning the first bastard bloodsucker

[haughty bluff]

wdym you don't like killing mutants and receiving absolutely no compensation for it?

[slim anvil]

you get to live! thats your reward

and less bullets

😢

[shrewd rampart]

At least the collars made some sense and reward. For the dogs.

Need more of that incentive

[haughty bluff]

honestly at this point I haven't even started playing stalker 2 yet but I feel like I should wait for mods/fixes to a lot of things for a first experience

[hexed monolith]

does anyone know what file controls the carry weight? I have a mod to increase it from 80 to 100 and even though i have more the red bar doesnt seem to be at a higher threshold lol

[shrewd rampart]

Since I have it unpacked atm...

• ObjEffectMaxParamsPrototypes.cfg
• ObjWeightParamsPrototypes.cfg

[hexed monolith]

i need the unpacker for it?

[shrewd rampart]

You have thredsholds in WeightParams that you can customize to your liking.
Three different ones to lay out as you like.

[split vortex]

How do you repack .pak files?
I can't seem to figure that out with FModel

[shrewd rampart]

see #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources for UnrealPak or any advice related to it in here using the search.

[shrewd rampart]

Depends on what you want to do 🙂

[hexed monolith]

just carry weight

[shrewd rampart]

Then there's now like 10 different mods (it feels like) that modify that, so you can choose to your liking.
And/or if you want to customize it fully to your own needs and wants, then yes you'd unpack it and then change it to your desire, then repack it.

[hexed monolith]

i have no idea how to do that LOL

guess i better start learning

[shrewd rampart]

Mod resources give you a nice start.

If it's not enough, there's also https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding for more in-depth.

[hexed monolith]

what if i open the pak w/ notepad

luhmow

[shrewd rampart]

.pak is a binary file, therefore you won't be able to do anything with it.

FModel to open .pak files.

UnrealPak to re-pack after editing your values back into a .pak
That's all/the main two things you really need for it

[hushed spruce]

AHHHHHH

ive arrived

so.

[sudden summit]

what do I mark here as it didnt work from first try

[hushed spruce]

Modding how do.

as in, how do I make a mod?

especially for the flashlight :D

[frozen anvil]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309520964782133328

[sudden summit]

oh nwm I was supposed to be clicking enter few times

[nocturne crag]

@calm lake @queen delta
I have finally got both mods working together, it wasnt hard, Im just kind of an idiot.
Managed to merge the sprint mod Into the longer days mod.
hallelujah

[hushed spruce]

ok aweomse

[sudden summit]

none of the folders contains aes file 😦

[hushed spruce]

have you tried using an aes dumper

:D

cuz i have NO clue what im looking at

[sudden summit]

idk what is that following tutorial guide on how to get aes

[rain finch]

@sudden summit check your PM

[hushed spruce]

grok can you.

send me whatever you sent him to me too

because im tryna dump the aes too

😭

[rain finch]

[sudden summit]

first line says I need AES I entered it then says cnanot find smth

[storm turtle]

What's the recommended % for grok's quest pay in Jake's longer days?

[rain finch]

Set to UE5_1

[rain finch]

I don’t use it

[storm turtle]

wait then what does "use the grok balance bundle mean" then

[hexed monolith]

@shrewd rampart how do i upload the cfg to the pak again?

[sudden summit]

in fmodel?

okay it worked I think

now gotta go to work after will have to check all mods if no files repeats to be sure all are compatible 😄

[shrewd rampart]

https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding/blob/main/BasicModding/UnrealPak.md
And make sure it's as stated in #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message under REPAK files heading, since file structure is important.

[hushed spruce]

YES!!!

YESS!°!! UT WORK!!!

now... where the FLIP! is the flashlight

[storm turtle]

also- vortex is telling me modular mutants is redundant and isnt deploying anyhting

not sure what Im doing wrong, I reinstalled it and it's still happening

[hushed spruce]

groks modular mutants has multiple folders inside the zip

theres like 100 files

[storm turtle]

I know
I selected which ones to use

[hushed spruce]

oh

[storm turtle]

but apparently it didnt take

[honest crag]

i would love to see the duration of my energy drinks, water, and food buffs

[hexed monolith]

got it, i can read i promise

[storm turtle]

selected these, but then nothing seems to actually get installed?

[nocturne crag]

food especially, just waiting for the drumstick to pop and then further more, having no idea how much to eat is kinda annoying

[storm turtle]

the folder's empty, too

[honest crag]

if anybody wants to mod in some moodles that would be sick

[hexed monolith]

can you take a look at that for me and tell me if it looks ok

[sudden summit]

quickly checked before work seems to be fien all mods edit diff files 😄

[hexed monolith]

i dont want to fuck my game up lol

[storm turtle]

I manually put them into the vortex folder and that seems to have fixed it... guess I'll just hope that works

[harsh jungle]

would there perhaps, be a chance to make the player stash bigger

[rain finch]

Download them manually

[harsh jungle]

I know it auto sorts itself, and makes itself bigger magically

[rain finch]

Don’t use vortex

[hushed spruce]

how do i change .uassets?

[rain finch]

You need the usmap file… and then cook them in UE but I’m not sure how yet

[hushed spruce]

do.. we have a usmap file?

[rain finch]

Last news is that the game rejects modified cooked uassets

[hushed spruce]

i need... to chan...gge...

[honest crag]

hey grok any plans for icons showing energy drink, water, duration etc? would be cool to see

[rain finch]

Sure one day maybe

But tbh the more I play S2 the more I want to return to GAMMA

[storm turtle]

I want to be able to run unmodded occasionally as well

[hushed spruce]

so

[rain finch]

https://tenor.com/view/this-fucking-sucks-danny-devito-clap-clapping-gif-17307367409868579769

[wide cypress]

we need them too cook S2 a bit more tbh

[storm turtle]

or generally turn stuff on and off without having to manually track things down

[honest crag]

understandable both are great, do whatever ur heart says

[hushed spruce]

just move the.. files out of the directory?

[storm turtle]

see above

[stark glade]

just turn s2 into an open world survivalcraft like gamma ez :v

[hushed spruce]

yknow you have to manually track things down in your little vortex window too right

right its like, 1 click instead of 3

but its not that much harder :/

[leaden dagger]

Yo Grok, any idea how to repak data tables?

[rain finch]

Stalker 2 is not linear but the open world systems aren’t that great… the cities are filled with stalkers doing nothing, alife is non existent, mutants dont give you anything and are just an economy sink

[storm turtle]

m8 how bout you lemme do my shit how ever I want and mind your own business

[hushed spruce]

then dont complain :)

[storm turtle]

I didnt complain

[hushed spruce]

also im allowing you to do your shit how you want it

[storm turtle]

something wasnt working as expected and I was seeking help in solving it

and "dont do it" isnt a solution

[honest crag]

yeah im sick of mutants and npcs spawning next to me as i approach an objective. really wish they couldve nailed that on release :/

[hushed spruce]

you got your answer ; dont use vortex

that simple

:)

[harsh jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-fighting-fighting-cats-anniehasleftoop-gif-23317332

[rain finch]

Then just remove the mods mod somewhere ?

[hexed monolith]

lol you can say that again. Ironically, i killed a bugged bloodsucker and it took me 5 fucking headshots with an SVD sniper rifle (7.51x54mm btw) KEKw

[leaden dagger]

I know the values are stored in the .uexp, but when loading and looking at a repacked .pak through fmodel, the values are the default ones and the file gets duplicated

[rain finch]

Data tables ? :0

[leaden dagger]

DT files

[rain finch]

These are in uassets right ?

[pliant ermine]

for the only dummy that isnt sure what that is, what is alife? is that just one life and reseting when dying or what does alife mean?

[hushed spruce]

may i ask what exactly you are editing? how did you extract the uassets? (the content within)

[hushed spruce]

a-life is the "ai engine" behind the AI

it makes ai do stuff .

[rain finch]

You need the usmap file hold on

[hushed spruce]

like. walk. and attack!

[pliant ermine]

ahhh thx

[leaden dagger]

Yeah I extracted everything with zentool. Opened them up with UassetGUI, editted them, repacked them

[honest crag]

also how did gsc neglect to add nightvision smh

[hushed spruce]

but most ai currently, dont do. that. they just Spawn in randomly and then do the walk. but A-life makes "unloaded" npcs have simulated walking times, etc,

[leaden dagger]

But it creates a duplicate the file, probably because of the difference in compression? Oodle vs Zlib

[rain finch]

I think uasset gui cannot be used atm 😦

[leaden dagger]

Ah shit, so hexidecimal editing it is?

[hushed spruce]

are you trying to make the flashlight better?

because im trying to do the exact same 😭

[tired lava]

Totally get it. I actually refunded. Even with all the fixes to Mouse and Performance, game felt sluggish. Systems are super bare bones, no meaningful loot as far as I was able to tell. The first few "quests" are so badly scripted, I dont have a lot of hope for the rest. Sure, looks pretty, but I also don't like bimbos.

[hushed spruce]

ope!

[stark jay]

Are one of those extractors able to export the uasset for one of the player viewarms/viewmodel? Can probably make a rig from that and try to import anims, skeletal meshes for weapons as well

[leaden dagger]

Yes. I've narrowed down where I think the attenuation radius and intensities are, also how it's setting the shadow flag

It's repaking the data table that is proving harduous

[hushed spruce]

the DTs, right?

[merry vigil]

BUMP

[rain finch]

Let me check the news

[hushed spruce]

ohh, where is that?

[leaden dagger]

It's the object Path in your own screen shot

[hushed spruce]

so, the DT?

[leaden dagger]

Yes

[hushed spruce]

ok ok

was just making sure lmfao

[leaden dagger]

The 9th entry is the flashlight

[sudden summit]

While still at home tried to check carry weght mod how dors it make max weight 200 but math is not mathing for me seen it set it to 140 wheres extra 60 coming from confused xD

[carmine jacinth]

does anyone knows where is the sid of quest is saved?

[leaden dagger]

Right now uassetGui isn't opening up json files either even json objects

So we're kinda down to trying to find hexadecimal values

[hushed spruce]

this is great...

[rain finch]

@leaden dagger JCaleb successfully edited an UI texture so I think he knows how to cook files back to uassets properly

I think you need unreal engine > new project > add the folder structure > cook

[leaden dagger]

That's the kicker, this isn't importing in a dummy uproject because it's a custom structure

I've already setup a project with jsonAsAsset

[hushed spruce]

then add the custom structure? idfk what im yapping tho i dont mod ue4 OR ue5 ever

[hazy terrace]

Me when i opened game and got kicked bcs of vram

[leaden dagger]

But since the type of the DT is S_LightPresset_Radius we can't open it up

[shrewd rampart]

Oh damn, was going to test both the ALife mod stuff from Nick with @honest glade's Stealth AI mod but there appears to be a conflict heh.
Just asking if anyone already merged this beforehand at some point in here? Or do I need to step through and edit this as needed?

[leaden dagger]

Yeah that's for inserting images, but the structure is of a custom type defined by code, which we can't open yet

[rain finch]

[fallen merlin]

waiting for Alife and SoC HUD+UI mod before i play

[hushed spruce]

a-life is technically ingame i just tthink. it sucks

[timid yarrow]

It doesn't work properly

[hushed spruce]

yeah

[timid yarrow]

You can clearly see it cuz zone is empty

[hushed spruce]

also, is there a way to make the scopes better? currently the reticle is "plastered" onto the lens youre looking at

which is super unrealistic

and also just

really stupid, because we have the processing power to like have a shader for scopes lol

my scopes in ROBLOX!!! look better than the ones in stalker 2 currently

[ruby matrix]

Any new mods out worth checking out other than the ones in announcements ??

[shrewd rampart]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/97?tab=description
Probably the biggest gamechanger recently.

[hushed spruce]

not really

it shaves off, like what? 30s max

[ruby matrix]

thank you, praise monolith for the modders

praying for a better flashlight soon

feels like skif is using a phone light

[delicate chasm]

Trueee

It sucks using the flash light sometimes

[hollow sedge]

Is the AES key different for each copy

[leaden dagger]

No

[calm lake]

do you have a link to it please?

[digital gulch]

did anyone used Vortex for stalker yet?
i noticed it created the mod folder elsewhere
wonder if it works

[nocturne crag]

well no, because I had to do the merger myself, Im not sure publishing what is 2 mods that other people made into my own would go

[calm lake]

lol, could you dm me the pak files?

[nocturne crag]

ye

oh but

[calm lake]

thanks a bunch

[digital gulch]

what mods ?

[nocturne crag]

its gonna be what I set it too, which is much longer sprint, and 3x the day length, I cant offfer options unless I manually do it for you

[calm lake]

thats fine

[pliant ermine]

it'd be nice for peeps like me, cause i havent looked into it at all and could help other newbies out aswell (: Im sure its not hard to learn but still nice for those who may not have the time to look into it

[nocturne crag]

3x day length and something around 3x sprint duration

[digital gulch]

ahh ye

i need to learn how to merge paks

doesnt sound to hard

cuz atm i bet i have conflicts

[nocturne crag]

its not hard, and its not merging paks really, paks contain cfg (text) files. WHen one mod isnt compatible with another, its because they both use (alter) the same file.
2 mods doing that will collide, so, if you just load one, alter it with the paramaters of another, then its all sweet

Here is longer srpint and longer days in one

3 hour day night, and at least double the sprint

[digital gulch]

what do you use to open them?

[nocturne crag]

you just paste it in like any other mod

[nocturne crag]

oh if you want to unpack paks then use the unrealunpacker

and repadck using unrealpacker with compression

need the file structure though

[hollow sedge]

what is it

[leaden dagger]

We can't share it openly because of legal ramifications

[past atlas]

show your roblox scope

[hushed spruce]

scroll up in stalker 2 chat

[nocturne crag]

ill illegally ramificate something

sorry, just happy I got these 2 mods running. feels nice

[hollow sedge]

Ohhh ok

[shrewd rampart]

Ait, that's my mod folder finally done and merged up.
Can't believe I spent all day in here rather than just playing the game. I hope it was worth it.
Won't be able to test those at the moment 😄 But the important thing is it looks clean'ish.

p.s I also merged your mod in @honest glade, the one with the stealth. That's intruiging can't wait to test after some sleep.
Can send you the merged .pak file later too for that + the ALife stuff.

[timid yarrow]

Is there a night vision in game or do we need mod for it?

[shrewd rampart]

Forgot _P at the end for a couple.
How important is it when packaging to have that suffix?

[prime reef]

I was confident they made the game giga dark to make getting nv really satisfying but it doesn't even seem to be in the game

[verbal ravine]

zero nvg or flashlight upgrades

[opaque kiln]

I noticed when I packed the files the _P ended up in the pak name, but if you download someone else's pak, it doesn't have that suffix, so it didn't seem important to me..but Im also brand new to doing this

[long saddle]

Grok is right the more of S2 I play the more I want to go play GAMMA again

[subtle gazelle]

My concern is whether this game's A-life will be saved. The devs didn't even put bonoculars in the game so as not to break the illusion that there is nothing happening within 100m of the character.

[long saddle]

Hopefully it can be

[velvet pewter]

Yep, i think thats most people. If a-life and a rank-system isnt implemented s2 is dead for me, just another casual shooter

[weary python]

Where can we see Groks opinions of S2 lol I'd be intrigued

[hollow sedge]

this aes key is confusing af for a first time modder ngl i got like 10 + different keys

[pliant ermine]

sry for askin here, maybe someone here has found a solution, any idea how to get into prof lod. place for the main quest "just like the good old days"?

[hexed monolith]

anyone know how to get rid of the red bar completely? for inventory weight lol

[0] : struct.begin
SID = Empty
MaxInventoryMass = 0.f
InventoryPenaltyLessWeight = 0.f
struct.end
DefaultWeightParams : struct.begin {refkey=[0]}
SID = DefaultWeightParams
MaxInventoryMass = 100
InventoryPenaltyLessWeight = 69.99
WeightEffectParams : struct.begin
[0] : struct.begin
Threshold = 100.f
EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
struct.end
struct.end
[1] : struct.begin
Threshold = 95.f
EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
[0] = OverweightMovementVelocityChange_3
struct.end
struct.end
[2] : struct.begin
Threshold = 90.f
EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
[0] = OverweightMovementVelocityChange_2
struct.end
struct.end
[3] : struct.begin
Threshold = 85.f
EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
[0] = OverweightMovementVelocityChange_1
struct.end
struct.end
struct.end

InventoryPenaltyLessWeight = 69.99 what does this line do

cus i make it higher, and it makes the entire bar red, so i changed it to be lower and it just fucked everything up

[hushed spruce]

i believe anything under this has quicker runspeed

calling it penalty is dumb but i assume its to keep it inline

[hexed monolith]

making it lower increases the penalty

[hushed spruce]

oh

[frank pelican]

I had to use UREnginetools and use no clip

[hushed spruce]

oh well i dont know lmao

[hexed monolith]

yeah lol its stupid

im just trying to make the red bar more lenient

cus default is 80 kg, and 70-80 is red

but in the 100 kg mod, like 75-100 is red

aids

[pliant ermine]

just tried that but hes not in his bunker

[wide cypress]

btw dunno if you can do anything with this, but this might be of interest to some people: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gwsxbv/alife_is_actually_present_in_the_game_code_here/

[subtle gazelle]

I'm praying for the title to be true, and for there to actually be a way to "fix" -A-life in the game. For me, what made Stalker a Stalker in all games and mods was the A-life.

[wide cypress]

as far as I can tell, it's legit, OP did some good digging, dunno if it's modable with our current knowledge tho

[subtle gazelle]

Now although the game seems to have potential, it is nothing more than a Farcry in Chernobyl.

[void crypt]

@pearl lichen yo great custom death screen mod on nexus, tho the nice zona wallpaper has the same screen as cheeki breeki one

[ashen anchor]

is there mod that fixes alife?

[atomic jacinth]

FModel doesn't seem to do a good job dealing with mods in the path and extracting the same file. once it seems to load a file you have to close and reopen to open the same file from another pak

[fallen umbra]

you me and everyone else man, a this point it feels more like an empty farcry/ fallout with going from point A to point B with A- life not functioning right, where is the NVGs, Binoculars? I know it wasn't in vanilla but where is mutant hides/meat right now there is no incentive for me on Veteran for me to mag dump on them EVEN with rounds meant for mutants. I'm just going to do the story and sidequest and wait a year maybe more for the community like the one here and other modders to make a Gamma/ other mod modules and fixes/patches and updates from devs to really make it the game stalker 2 should have been.

this feels like CP2077 release all over again(which was made the game it should have been a year later) with the amazing potential of a 10/10 game there being marred down by so many other things that bring down to a 6-8 depending on how harshly you treat its flaws.

heck even my noob self is trying to mess around with mods and etc myself to try and fix the stuff with stalker 2

[indigo beacon]

thank god for the foliage npc mod. i hope it works in that area with the shit windows

oh shit sorry for the ping

[primal rose]

well it comes down to it not even feeling like a stalker title lol

[opaque osprey]

Nw, but I'm not the person you looking for 😅

[indigo beacon]

yeah i clicked by mistake. school started and i have 10 hours here infront of me so im blind and misclicked lmao @opaque osprey

has anyone checked if the foliage mod works with the building windows? mfers have aimbot without seeing anything. mentioned it previously

i think that place was on garbage location btw.

[indigo beacon]

some stuff will require us to wait for SDK sadly... i might try to learn some stuff myself maybe i can finally use my braindead ass to help people.

hoping the sdk will be solid.

[wide cypress]

yeah that's kinda what I expected

[indigo beacon]

in december the roadmap will be released. blessrng SDK is soontm ther

[opaque osprey]

I feel you. What made me keep playing stuff like Gamma is the fact that there's so much stuff happening outside of quests, main and sides, randomly generated stuff that feel like they're own stories, but happening without you. So when you witnesse some of those scenes, you can only imagine what has lead to them and decide if you want to be part of what happens. That's the beauty I'm looking for, and so waiting for right now

[indigo beacon]

or warfare mode when u bored of that lol

[remote umbra]

is CS in stalker 2?

[indigo beacon]

cs?

[remote umbra]

clear sky

[opaque osprey]

No spoiler pls

Wrong channel too btw

[remote umbra]

my bad

sorry

[indigo beacon]

havent seen em yet. dont think so no spoilers here anything can happen tbh. massive map

[queen delta]

There were instructions somewhere here on this channel or some other how to do it properly and maybe there is a bad program or bad save location or even the wrong pak file type. Dunno.

[indigo beacon]

pins ^

[queen delta]

Oh didn't noticed, great, what was the trouble cause?

[indigo beacon]

all tools and tutorials should be there

[fallen umbra]

i got distracted every single time i was making my way to do a task hahahaha( anyways lets keep it relevant to modding now)

[daring sluice]

Anyone aware of being able to alter assets yet or no? Might have to be a SDK thing, trying to turn collision off on some things

[indigo beacon]

ay, werent that the mods that used the same file that basically made it impossible to do without merging?

[honest glade]

I do not know about the area with the shit windows

tell me more

[quiet scroll]

Could we get a mod which makes all textures be in 128p?

[indigo beacon]

imma need to find it. bandits at location somewhere at garbage. metal windows with tiny gaps. they shoot through that.

basically window blinds

[honest glade]

send me a screenshot when you there

[indigo beacon]

imma need to find that location. im at school rn and going back home in 10 hours.

[honest glade]

I can see if I can fix that

[indigo beacon]

so imma just see that. aight anyway brb gonna give more info later

[honest glade]

sure thing

[pearl sentinel]

guys i cannot load any files, i have put the AES key and the mapping files

[daring sluice]

Did you change version to 5.1?

[pearl sentinel]

yes

[daring sluice]

archive directory may be wrong?

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks

[pearl sentinel]

should i set it to that?

[sturdy pumice]

anyone know if groks mods tweaks weapon repair at all? trying to see if my mods are working. The ar rewarded from pomor is still 19k to repair. also on veteran difficulty

[daring sluice]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[pearl sentinel]

still nothing

there was alot of generated AES keys

do i have to try them all?

[zinc fractal]

How long do y'all reckon it will take before someone makes a mod manager?

[indigo beacon]

tbh not worth it with the game at current state. gotta wait for SDK or to have devs implement a built in MCM @zinc fractal

also im wondering, is it possible to update game engines with patches? 5.5 seem to give some serious good updates for megalights etc.

[zinc fractal]

It's such a pain in the ass right now to figure out what mods / configs conflict with each other, yet without some of them the game feels pretty broken (economy, repair fees, durability, stamina/regen, consumables, weight, etcetc)

[indigo beacon]

well the game came out 3 days ago as a buggy unoptimised mess. current focus is less on gameplay and more about fixing stuff for modders

[daring sluice]

It is technically possible but it'd have to take a very talented and experienced modder

[indigo beacon]

mcm makes sense when you add big mechanics that are different from base game

[zinc fractal]

Think the biggest issue right now is conflicting files, and not per se big mechanics or adding other stuff

[indigo beacon]

tbh performance wise i seen someone showcase megalights. went from 5fps on a scene to 30-40fps. also new meshes tools for nanite to give texture make it way faster now.

[desert hollow]

you were blessed if you had such a good experience with CB2077 at launch

[daring sluice]

Yes if some genius hackermans come alongs and manages to do it then that's great, performance gain would be good

[indigo beacon]

without an SDK this is all we can do, all you can do on your end is try to merge mods somehow.

[zinc fractal]

[indigo beacon]

that would require a expierienced UE5 dev to implement, impossible without blueprints and project files anyway to enable engine features.

[desert hollow]

to be fair this game is far from the atrocious state CB launched in

[loud basalt]

Can I get help here on why my mods don't work? or should I use a different channel?

[zinc fractal]

Yeah Im trying, but Im an absolute idiot with 0 experience in mods or programming knowledge so it's a giant pain in the ass

[zinc fractal]

You can always ask here yes

[digital barn]

Lads anyone can spare the link for less tanky controllers etc? Can't seem to find it, already have bloodsuckers and flesh one

[indigo beacon]

here is fine i think @loud basalt debugging is one part of modding

[loud basalt]

well, not the mod i made, but the one i downloaded i mean

[zinc fractal]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23 this?

[indigo beacon]

wanna learn together? 😂 i have zero knowledge myself.

[loud basalt]

cause I downloaded the ARS modpack and it doesn't work. I made the ~mods folder and no worky

[acoustic obsidian]

it is actually astonishing how many people decided to try out modding after game came out

[daring sluice]

Nah it's still possible for modder to up it to 5.5 just really hard

[indigo beacon]

even tho UE5 is pretty damn hard to mod. we should thank the lunatics that decided to make it work in the first place LOL @acoustic obsidian

[zinc fractal]

It greatly improves the player experience to edit things to their liking. Just like the difficulty

[indigo beacon]

oh sick so ig its just another lunatic required to pull that off lol

considering this community we defo have few lurning around haha

[daring sluice]

I mean I wouldn't be surprised if it's done, stalker modding community is pretty good

[indigo beacon]

isnt it one of the biggest communities in the world (not counting bethesda games) for modding?

[exotic token]

Given the types of mods so far I can only imagine most devs are braindead
There's 0 reason not to have all the sliders Anomaly does already.

Why do I need to download mods to change timescale or damage or whatever? This is all stuff that should be standard in menus.

[daring sluice]

Not too sure, although them bethesda modders be spoiled got all the tools

[zinc fractal]

This is the problem tho, you take ANOMALY as a base line

Which is a already modded game

[indigo beacon]

true that. and engine been the same for decades

[zinc fractal]

We all take Anomaly for granted

[exotic token]

Why would I not
Good menu options are good menu options

It's the same how I assume devs are stupid when games don't have key rebinding or disabling godrays and blur and whatever else

[indigo beacon]

^

[exotic token]

All options should be avaliable 100% of the time

No excuses

[winter cipher]

So is the only way to get some mods to work to just to start a new save

[loud basalt]

i put the mod hare and it doesn't work. Still 80kg and still can't sell broken stuff. Am i doing this wrong?

[zinc fractal]

Well yes there are excuses

If you think the modders do it better, let them make the game instead of the original game dev who made the base game?

[indigo beacon]

^

[zinc fractal]

What GCS did was make the base framework

[exotic token]

Game devs avoid releasing mod tools to prevent exactly that

[indigo beacon]

just learn how to remake UE5 engine from scratch so you can do Anomaly 2.0

if you are that butthurt do it yourself

[zinc fractal]

So you want game devs to be open source day 1? So their game can be instantly spread for free?

[exotic token]

Yes

[zinc fractal]

So they'd get 0 profit, and have 0 incentive to even make a game

Why make a game then

[daring sluice]

Sorry, that's pretty delusional lol

[indigo beacon]

you do realise RUNE already released it? lmao steamstub as the only DRM made day 0 possible

[pearl sentinel]

anyone.....?

[exotic token]

Games have been downloadable for free since forever
It's called piracy

[fallen umbra]

i was on the former side it took me DAYS to get it to run, but when i did play it it was solid. phantom liberty + all the updates CDPR did made me sink majority of hours into it though

[indigo beacon]

piracy and open source is TWO DIFFERENT THINGS

[zinc fractal]

Which is illegal

[exotic token]

And completely unrelated to mod tools

[zinc fractal]

Do what you want

[indigo beacon]

and also impossible to open source it fully as you cant opensource UE5

[zinc fractal]

But dont expect the world to run for free

"I want food, the stores should make it free of cost"

Thats not how it works

[indigo beacon]

they could only share assets and other shit. maybe their blueprints. not the engine itself.

[exotic token]

If UE5 can't make games how did Stalker 2 team do it?

[zinc fractal]

They might do so

[indigo beacon]

which is different from anomaly as it was a custom fork of the xray engine. complete recreation pretty much.

[desert hollow]

CB was horrible at launch, STALKER 2 is much much better HAHAHAHAHHA

[zinc fractal]

But 2 days after launch? Give it some time

[indigo beacon]

are you that dumb? lmaooo use google for once in your life.

this guy ong

[zinc fractal]

Anyway, back to modding: anyoknow have a clue why I can't unpack this:

[fallen umbra]

it was lmao, stalker only took me A DAY to get working rofl, im simply referring to the gamplay experience though, perfomance stuff... yeah CB takes the cake, i had mid range hardware at the time and it took me a lot of troubleshooting for days (which i had requested for offs from work) to get it working.

[daring sluice]

You try dragging the folder onto unpak?

[zinc fractal]

Yep, thats the error Im getting

It's the zz_reasonable_degradation , wanted to check the settings but idk why I cant unpack it (same error for zz_Fred_UnrestrictedEquipmentUpgrades tho)

[daring sluice]

Try using FModel?

[merry wedge]

@rain finch with the way modding is currently going the rebalance mod was initially a decent idea but do to compatibility issues you think youll create a massive amount of just modular options to compensate for the problem?

[pearl sentinel]

fuck its still not working

[merry wedge]

a one mode to fit all is def not the go to for this game rn until these compatibilit issues are solved

[zinc fractal]

I only figured out how unrealpak works, not fmodel

[daring sluice]

Do you have Fmodel?

[zinc fractal]

Aye

[daring sluice]

chuck the pak into your ~mods folder and open it from fmodel

some mods aren't unpaking properly so you can use FModel to get around it

[rain finch]

No I will wait for a proper mod manager

It's aint that hard to make tbh

[zinc fractal]

Well at least thats some good news

[rain finch]

But I don't have time as I have other things to attend to. I could make a working tool but fixing bugs and maintaining it: absolutely not

[indigo beacon]

good to know :D. also how limited is currently modding without SDK? im thinking about getting into it tbh.

[indigo beacon]

yup :D

[inner basin]

So, did these developers smoke crack? chimeras takes 40 buckshot and 5 mags of svd shots to kill and im supposed to fight it in the open in the swaps? Then when i finally kill him by cheesing theres an emmision and the only house in a 2km radius doesnt count as shelter.. Wow

[snow peak]

there's a mod to make mutants less tanky

[indigo beacon]

check groks mods for the mutant

[inner basin]

i have it

[indigo beacon]

i mean chimeras were always tanky. at least one mutant that makes sense to be tanky

[autumn dawn]

@rain finch my hats off to ya man appreciate what your doing for Gamma and Stalker 2

[indigo beacon]

^

<3

[inner basin]

not this tanky lol

[indigo beacon]

yeahhh gsc fucked it royally

[snow peak]

ngl its kinda goofy that it's more difficult to kill bloodsuckers in stalker 2 than it is to kill pseudogiants in SoC

[indigo beacon]

LOL yeah @snow peak

[crimson laurel]

all we been doing was editing stuff even on a image level, we have to see about adding new meshes, scripts etc

[inner basin]

theres no way to win in the open and it looks like this encounter is scripted. I mean i cant reload the weapons between attacks. Chimeras used to kind of run away and then come back from another angle. Here it just circulates me attacking faster than i can heal or reload

[indigo beacon]

integrating brand new scripts with existing blueprints from the game would be pain tbh. no clue without seeing these to not do something that already exists.

[inner basin]

and theres no point. ill die to the emmision either way since theres no shelter here so guess ill have to load a save from an hour ago or so

[indigo beacon]

f5 is your friend remember @inner basin

[crimson laurel]

only testing and time will tell

[floral garden]

the chimera in the swamp? get behind trees, his charge attacks will cease to work.

[indigo beacon]

fair enough @crimson laurel

[daring sluice]

YOU WORK IT OUT @zinc fractal

sorry caps

[zinc fractal]

No need to shout to me

[daring sluice]

lol

[inner basin]

ive killed him but it doesnt matter... cant get out of here in this save because of emission so i have to redo this whole quest

[floral garden]

you can get in cover by the church inside that collapsed hillhole no?

[inner basin]

im at the bottom of the swamp and the emission started as i was fighting the chimera so i have about 20 seconds ^^

[floral garden]

oof 😄

[keen nimbus]

Life, save more often 🙂

[merry wedge]

Bro why cant I get this damn repair reduction mod to work

[zinc fractal]

Because it conflicts with other mods you have, most likely

[tender wadi]

Hello! Could you please tell me is there any mod that allows to rebind 2nd and 4th quick access slots to 'push' keys instead of 'hold'?

[zinc fractal]

Not yet as far as I know, but there is a weird work around, see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gvwhvr/fix_for_pc_players_flashlight_keybind_and_f1f4/

[inner basin]

i have saves, its just really annoying that apparently a perfectly good house is not shelter for some reason

[tender wadi]

TYVM!

[indigo beacon]

holy shit i need this rather than the dumb as hell hold mechanic.

[inner basin]

but a broken down one with holes everywhere and cracks between planks is somehow good?

[finite pelican]

Hello, I'm running into the out of memory issues when compiling shaders, but only after installing Grok's rebalanced monsters, difficulty and S2OptimizedTweaks

I'm assuming it's the graphical optimisation that's causing the issue, anyone else run into that?

[floral garden]

and then one can finally put lean left right where they should be on Q-E ;p

[zinc fractal]

You're probably using the wrong file from S2O

[daring sluice]

Checkout some Engine.ini you could probably adjust allocated vram

[zinc fractal]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2?tab=files then use the Stalker Optimizer (VRAM Error) file

[buoyant goblet]

I think this is bugged Ive died to emissions while browsing through my private stash in a concrete bunker 2 flights into the earth.

[daring sluice]

This works too

[finite pelican]

Thank you both!

Any other mods people like?

[keen nimbus]

Man, GAMMA really spoiled Stalker2 for me... I forgot how limited the original game design was for Stalkers.

[finite pelican]

I'm enjoying the atmosphere, I just wish the spawns weren't so broken

if they weren't I could at least pretend the NPCs have a life

[daring sluice]

Checkout pinned comments and https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309526198833119303

[finite pelican]

Oh good shout!

Cheers

[keen nimbus]

If this was a release I wasn't looking forward to for well over a decade, it would have been a hard negative review. No a-life, no modern QoL, shitty mutant game balance.

[zinc fractal]

Mods is the answer to all of this

[earnest gale]

hello everyone, if i am using two mods that goes in conflic do i fix that by merging them?

[daring sluice]

Why do I keep hearing about this no A-Life nonsense it's already been found their is... Just not working as intended atm

[keen nimbus]

Yep, hence me sitting here though I would like to complete the game unmodded at least once so I can give better feedback... damn pain!

[buoyant goblet]

not working pretty much means no a life rite now

[daring sluice]

Difference between not working and not working as intended no?

[buoyant goblet]

both mean the same thing. Not working. It's fine, but it also sucks.

[modern rune]

So I checked reddit for the quickslot fix for F1-4 but it seem to not work with f2 and f4

[1] : struct.begin
DefaultID = -1
bIsPlayerMappable = true
PlayerMappableOption = QuickSlot1
InputActionSID = IA_QuickSlot1
Key = F1
OldKey = Q
Triggers : struct.begin
[0] = EPlayerActionInputTrigger::Tap
struct.end
struct.end

[2] : struct.begin
DefaultID = -1
bIsPlayerMappable = true
PlayerMappableOption = QuickSlot2
InputActionSID = IA_QuickSlot2
Key = F2
OldKey = Q
Triggers : struct.begin
[0] = EPlayerActionInputTrigger::Tap
struct.end
struct.end

[4] : struct.begin
DefaultID = -1
bIsPlayerMappable = true
PlayerMappableOption = QuickSlot3
InputActionSID = IA_QuickSlot3
Key = F3
OldKey = E
Triggers : struct.begin
[0] = EPlayerActionInputTrigger::Tap
struct.end
struct.end

[5] : struct.begin
DefaultID = -1
bIsPlayerMappable = true
PlayerMappableOption = QuickSlot4
InputActionSID = IA_QuickSlot4
Key = F4
OldKey = E
Triggers : struct.begin
[0] = EPlayerActionInputTrigger::Tap
struct.end
struct.end

[daring sluice]

Are the defaultId all meant to be -1

?

[modern rune]

I think so cause I only change the key and hold

[earnest gale]

hello everyone, if i am using two mods that goes in conflic do i fix that by merging them?

[buoyant goblet]

yes

[indigo beacon]

exactly. so dumb. so many stupid choices tbh.

[finite pelican]

Thanks for the tips, gonna see how's the game with a couple mods!

Like I said I was already enjoying it just a couple tweaks would make it a great time, even if it's still bugged to hell

[buoyant goblet]

What were the default keys for leaning again?

[finite pelican]

z and c

psychotic

[indigo beacon]

yup

[modern rune]

It looked good but the tap dont work

[buoyant goblet]

lol, went straight to mouse for me. Thank god I got used to that ages ago then. Heart goes out to you QE enjoyers

[modern rune]

It is still hold for me

[buoyant goblet]

CV is also a good alternative, get that thumb involved.

[finite pelican]

that's what she said

[turbid roost]

What you guys think about the weights ingame

It seems you are too op with "no weight on ammo or usables"

But it appears to be skiff is thinking bread is pretty heavy when you dont have the mod.

[daring sluice]

@turbid roost https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/67?tab=description

Could try this one

[buoyant goblet]

I am getting pretty heavy with Quest Items.

[turbid roost]

spasiba stalker

[buoyant goblet]

I have been overweight for the entire game.

[broken marten]

So like in the announcemt ,a-life is not bugged?

[stoic schooner]

Bread might not be heavy but it can take up quite a bit of space in your backpack. That's what I keep telling myself to cope

[violet atlas]

I have quest items that I cant get rid of

[daring sluice]

If you're talking about skif's pistol you will need it

[violet atlas]

Bubs (I think) PDA, from side mission. All completed, but still item in inventory with orange checkmark.

Good to know about pistol though, thanks.

[daring sluice]

It probably continues further maybe

[merry wedge]

is there a mod that is specifically for bleeding

i dont want groks rebalance because i cant try basically any other

[daring sluice]

Also since on topic of quests, aware spoiler talk stalkers

[earnest gale]

how do i merge mods?

[lilac stump]

I dont think aLife exists, spawning NPCs near the player inst aLife its a cheap illusion of it.

[merry wedge]

theres no easy way

[merry wedge]

you have to create your own config file for yourself basically

[radiant ledge]

Hey guys, I'm looking to do something (anything, really) about the seeming VRAM leak in the game. I have an RTX 3070 and its 8GB of VRAM is struggling to keep reasonable 1% lows anywhere near settlements or in busy interiors (screw you, Nvidia, for giving this GPU just 8GB of VRAM) at medium texture settings. It starts out fine, but then very quickly after running around Zalisye for a few minutes, it turns into an absolute stutterfest with the whole framebuffer pegged to the max.

Optimization mods either don't do anything for it, or they screw around with asset streaming values to the point of making it worse. I generally hate current .pak based performance mods for not detailing what exactly is changed and not explaining the changes made. And engine.ini tweaks are kinda similar in that people just dump stuff without explaining reasoning and logic behind things, all the while running vastly different hardware, which obviously leads to issues.

So...anything I could potentially do to work on the framebuffer overflowing and dropping me to 1 fps for like 10 seconds? Or any place I could read about possible general solutions for UE5 games?

[stoic schooner]

You have to do it manually. There's a comment by DeonDF on this mod page https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113?tab=posts that explains it

[woven wasp]

I wonder if it makes sense to combine many mods into one whole? After all, no one is immune from conflicts and sit, test everything, hoping that everything will work as intended...

[merry wedge]

im playing on a laptop with a 4070, it sounds like your to scared to turn down some settings because my game runs awsome

[radiant ledge]

I'm not. It's the same behavior for me on low, medium, or epic. I've been fighting with this game since around 7PM EET on Wednesday

And of course I'd like the game not to look like absolute garbage while I'm playing it

[merry wedge]

then your doing something wrong brother, no DLSS?

[maiden oriole]

Can we use MO2 for Stalker 2?

[merry wedge]

im playing on low with DLSS game still looks great people are coping

[radiant ledge]

I'm playing at 1080p. DLSS (other than DLAA option) is a death sentence at 1080p

[merry wedge]

im doing 2560 x 1600p on a laptop with DLSS

bro u are doingg something very wrong

i get like 80fps

on a laptop with a laptop version of a 4070

which is basically a 4060

[radiant ledge]

dude...I'm telling you how it looks to me. To me it looks like jumbled mess at 1080p with DLSS. Like a gross amalgamation of pixels. The game can look stunning at 4k with performance DLSS (tried it, looked amazing, but VRAM overflowed very fast)

[raw aspen]

i cant find it can some 1 pls post a link pls?

[inner basin]

theres an engine.ini in the stickies that has an option for setting the streamingpool to a certain value based on your vram. have you tried that?

[merry wedge]

im not having those issues at all, try playing 1440p but in fullscreen exclusive

with DLSS on quality

and do like all medium

[stoic schooner]

The fps aren't a problem for many people. It's the stuttering. I can play at 120+ fps but the game stutters below that from time to time. I even capped it to 60 out of curiosity but I still get random dips under 60

[merry wedge]

the mods fix the stuttering

[radiant ledge]

it kills 1% lows for me instantly, for some reason. If I use that variable I'm not even getting to run around for a few minutes - instant 1 fps due to buffer overflowing

[merry wedge]

but even i never had stuttering before i used the mods tbh

[floral garden]

Different models performs very differently depending on the laptop, there are laptops that are restricted to 65W,105W,120W and 140W variants.

[merry wedge]

my laptop is 230W

[floral garden]

some allows for changing the TGP others do not 🙂

I used it as an example not as one definitive list

[radiant ledge]

my man...you do realize you are the stereotypical "works on my machine" guy right now? In IT guys like you are a common joke

[merry wedge]

you also say you refuse to use a optimization mod

but come here to complain

[radiant ledge]

n-no? I used anmd tested all of them and told you of my results?

[merry wedge]

this one

will fix generally most stuttering

[tender wadi]

Could you please tell me is there mod that allows to track more than one stash at the time?

[raw aspen]

can some 1 pls pot a link to the crash fix pls?

[radiant ledge]

Tried, played around with it - it improves things in the wilderness for me, but compeltely destroys Zalisye. By what I see from hardware sensors - it's a VRAM issue

[merry wedge]

the cities perform bad for everyone its not a you problem

too muchNPC logic in the cities

[inner basin]

r.Streaming.PoolSize=6144 - this one? did you make sure to change the value to the 8GB Vram one?

[merry wedge]

also go into your nvidia control panel and set your shader cache to 10Gb

its a common fix most people arent talking about

[calm lake]

Probably some memory leaks. When you restart the game the area seems fine for me

[radiant ledge]

yes, this variable, 6144 is a suicide for my system for some reason...

[merry wedge]

do this

[radiant ledge]

that seems like the likeliest thing, if I run the game without optimization .pak mods or screwing around with streaming budget in engine.ini, it works good at the start, then I move around and welcome to stutterfest

[merry wedge]

memory leak problems are universal if they exist

[radiant ledge]

this is like the most basic of stuff I did on the first day and it's still configured this way after a clean reinstall of drivers, didn't help

[merry wedge]

whats your texture quality set to

in game

[pearl sentinel]

we need a seperate channel for mod making

[solemn hinge]

for anyone interested, made custom engine with UHT dumps and shit. Haven't fixed anything yet so good luck making this shit work https://github.com/jagged-teeth/Stalker2-CustomEngine

[radiant ledge]

of course they are, the issue is the speed at which the old assets are dumped and new streamed in, settlements seem to have too much density so the memory manager isn't keeping up, that's my thought

[radiant ledge]

medium

[rich elm]

#1309526198833119303 ?

[pearl sentinel]

read the channel name

[merry wedge]

then put it to low brother idk

[pearl sentinel]

is there a way to make zentools extract a single uasset file instead of the whole game?

[solemn hinge]

yes

I don't think i can share an invite to another discord

but there's a stalker 2 modding discord around

[pearl sentinel]

you can dm

[solemn hinge]

with all the resources

[radiant ledge]

It looks like ass on low. Look, I had a pretty straight forward question about variables and resources to learn about UE5 asset streaming and what can be done to mitigate the issue with the vram budget. If I wanted to just put everything to low, I'd just do it and not ask here. Like no offense, but c'mon.

[twilit scroll]

can confirm

[merry wedge]

game looks fine on low your just playing on 1080p

[twilit scroll]

set hair and foliage low

foliage is min difference

hair is the big killer

like witcher 3 on release

there's also a reddit post on changing engine.ini files for foliage

and increasing distance for it

but ingame foliage just hogs resources

[radiant ledge]

and 1440p or 4k get me the same results with VRAM XD what are you on?

[radiant ledge]

I'll try it, can you somehow link me the reddit post?

[twilit scroll]

it was someone in the comments so I don't remember

I'm waiting for patches anyways, cause I don't like enemy behaviour and the memory leaks get to me

[radiant ledge]

can I link reddit threads?

[merry wedge]

bro i have 8gb of vram, what are you on

i have roughly the exact same setup as you

[pulsar pike]

Can we suggest mods here?

[twilit scroll]

btw, that variable also takes into account your ram too (from skyrim days), but that's if ya wanna min max

[radiant ledge]

And you are just actively arguing against my experience, invalidating it and ignore my original question to peddle your narrative in some weird disbelief without any seeming knowledge on the subject. I'm not in the mood to beef. Just - nothing to say - don't say anything, please.

[twilit scroll]

6k should be ok for 8gig vram

[polar perch]

EDITING TEXTURES FOR STALKER 2 (Should work with 3d models and materials)

1. Extract your textures with FModel. I won't cover this in the tutorial.
2. Do your edit to the texture. It must be kept as the format it was exported as.
3. Install Unreal Engine 5.1.
4. Create a new project: Name does not matter, location does not matter. Just make it for Games, and Blank. Uncheck "Starter Content". Click Create. (Check first picture on this message.)
5. Make sure the "Content" folder inside UE5 is empty and has nothing. Then create a folder structure much like the texture (model/material) had in FModel when you exported it, starting from the Content. For example, if I want to modify the ammo inventory textures, I would do GameLite\FPS_Game\UIRemaster\UITextures\Inventory\Ammo. Because the Content folder already exists. (Check second picture on this message)
6. Import your edited texture inside the folder needed, keep the name the same it was in FModel.
7. Go to Edit>Project Settings in UE5. Search and enable Generate Chunks.
8. Go to Edit>Editor Preferences. Search and enable Allow Chunk ID Assignments. This will allow you to individually assign chunks to the files.
9. In your Content folder, right click, and go to Miscellaneous>Data Asset. Create one.
10. Set this Data Asset as PrimaryAssetLabel.
11. Name the Data Asset as Label_YourModName. Double click to open it. Set its priority to 1 or more (1 works just fine it seems). Set the Chunk ID to something high. This is what makes this pak be differenciated between the other .pak files in the game and other mods. In the Data Asset, also set the Cook Rule to Always Cook. And put the Label Assets in My Directory as checked. You can ALSO put it to Apply Recursively which means it will apply whether you assign the chunks manually or not, on the folders next to this asset. (Check third picture on this message)
12. Go to your texture file/s. Right click and go to Asset Actions>Assign to Chunk. In this new window, write the chunk ID you wrote previously in the Label_YourModName.
13. Press Ctrl+Shift+S to save EVERYTHING. No need to save the map. You can also press on each file and press Ctrl+S. Or click on the save icon on each open file.
14. Go to Platforms>Windows. Set it as Shipping, and press Package Project. Select somewhere you can go to easy. This will take a bit, when its done, you can go to that location>Windows>ProjectName>Content>Paks. Inside you will find your .pak, .ucas and .utoc files. You need the three of them. You will see they have the name starting with pakchunk and the number you set your pak chunk. Leave that be for the three, but rename them so it looks something like this: pakchunk300-TestTextures_P. The _P seems to be needed. Important also is that you check how big the files are. If they are too big, something went wrong with what you picked to pak (make sure you set your chunks correctly and the project settings were set correctly). Place these files into your STALKER 2 game folder>Stalker2>Content>Paks>~mods (Check fourth picture on this message)
15. Test it.

NOTES: Some people say that you need to also use Io Store, others say that you don't. If it doesn't work for you, then click on Use Io Store when editing your packaging options (where you set Generate Chunks). Some people also say that you need to click "cook everything in the project content directory", if you can't get it to work, then try doing that. For me it went fine without. However, I noticed you can also set your asset directories under "Additional Asset Directories to Cook", and that specifies what to cook or not.

[twilit scroll]

6k is lowballing it even

[indigo beacon]

damn explosion of t3xt

[merry wedge]

people give options and you shoot everything down not sure what answer your looking for

you sound as smart as the rest of us and if u cant figure it out on your own i doubt we can honestly help

[indigo beacon]

need someone to pin this

[inner basin]

dude, its not working for him. its not like he doesnt try it and disregards it.. Just stop typing. really easy

[radiant ledge]

I tried 7168 - very similar results, and 7680 as the top margin, didn't fare much better

[twilit scroll]

what issue do you get

a crash?

[radiant ledge]

if that's about me - I get my GPU pegged at 100% with 1fps. VRAM is pegged at the same time. Looks like the game for some reason heavily overflows into RAM or even disk drive space for some ungodly reason.

[twilit scroll]

I know why

[pulsar pike]

Aight here goes, mod suggestions:
-Cut down bloodsucker spawn rate by, like, 70%
-Texture downgrader. Like, all the textures down to 1/2k resolution for the rigs that are struggling.
-Particle effects downgrader. Some of the weather and anomlies is murder on FPS.
-Faction rep screen/dynamic player relations
-NVGs, obviously
-Improved NPC identification system. Kinda hard to figure out who people are, also the loot screen doesn't show their factions anymore.
-CoP/Anomaly-based legacy inventory and dialogue UI. the new stuff is huge and very tailored to consoles

[twilit scroll]

do you have a system hard drive

and an ssd

[radiant ledge]

I have the game on an NVMe

[twilit scroll]

ok

[radiant ledge]

but now that you mention it...

[twilit scroll]

is your steam on the nvme

it should be

i had the same issue years ago

[radiant ledge]

I have the game on a separate logic drive to my system drive, and yes, Steam isn't on the same drive

[twilit scroll]

it has to

or it hogs disk usage

for some reason

[wide cypress]

we can't edit the code yet, only config and textures apparently now

[twilit scroll]

reinstall steam unto the ssd

it also slows down downloads and installs

[radiant ledge]

is it like that with every game? I swear everything else on my PC works fine. Is it just the way S2 is so agressive with assets streaming?

[pulsar pike]

well, at least we can hopefully get some downgrader mods for struggling rigs. i'm in the 25-30 fps range and it drops to 20 in bases and high-pop areas
@wide cypress

[twilit scroll]

it made installing elden ring a nightmare

steam on the main system drive just was bad for disk usage

[radiant ledge]

wait, just so we I get this clear: is it an issue of swapping data between devices or an HDD vs SSD issue? Because steam is on an SSD, just a different one. I'll try your recommendation either way but brother, is that a weird one.

[twilit scroll]

I had hdd, but maybe it being on the system drive is bad

[radiant ledge]

Oooof. Okay, Imma try. I thought since it's my fastest NVMe it'll be better XD

[radiant ledge]

Thank you for this link, I'll definitely look into it.

[pulsar pike]

Odds we can get AP rounds at some point? haven't found any and mutant armor values are insane. you kinda have to use shotguns and snipers for them

[radiant ledge]

there are AP rounds in the game. They are described as such

[merry mountain]

use a mod to make them less tanky, they have huge amounts of hp

[pulsar pike]

damn my luck must suck, i havent seen any

[radiant ledge]

IIRC they aren't called AP themselves, they just have a description part saying they aren't "regular" but "armor piercing", if I get in game rn, I can take a screenshot for you so you know what to look for 🙂

[pulsar pike]

would be nice. i gtg but hit me up with that @, thanks

[buoyant goblet]

Here's an example

[indigo beacon]

@rain finch possible to pin this?

[twilit scroll]

someone made an antiaimbot mod

thank fuck

[indigo beacon]

yup lmao.

[radiant ledge]

snap, yeah, as far as I can see there are "armor-piercing" types for every weapon basically

[twilit scroll]

it was worse than vanilla misery

[indigo beacon]

nah you must have not played misery in years. they can oneshot you across the map.

[radiant ledge]

I think he's talking about mutants

[twilit scroll]

I was there when the ancient texts were written

[indigo beacon]

you know the bridge and merc camp? yeah how about not even entering that damn bridge and already being shot at.

[twilit scroll]

with 32kb/s download speeds

[indigo beacon]

he mentioned anti aimbot so obviously NPC's and not mutants

[twilit scroll]

yeah npcs

[radiant ledge]

oh, I thought we were still on about AP rounds haha

[twilit scroll]

mutants I hate cause no reward

[indigo beacon]

nah. completelly different topic lmao

[keen nimbus]

Anyone has directions to where the ammo/weapon actual stats are?

[radiant ledge]

that as well...goddamn fleshes ganking you and you wasting 4 shots on each of them for nothing

[indigo beacon]

please someone bring back skinning em...

[twilit scroll]

gotta run like usain bolt

[radiant ledge]

but I wanna be an Eastern European Rambo, moooooom 😭

[indigo beacon]

LOL

[twilit scroll]

someone needs to make a cooking and hunting pack

so I can sell food and parts

[stoic schooner]

Someone will probably do it. "Looting" mutant bodies is in the game already for quests so...

[twilit scroll]

main quests?

[indigo beacon]

nah probs modded sidequests

[twilit scroll]

or the bartender sidequests

he said it's ingame already

[indigo beacon]

ah right

missed that

why the fuck they didnt implement it for everything then cmon. base is already laid out

[stoic schooner]

There was a sidequest in Zalissya where you went out with a dude hunting wild dogs. Had to loot the doggos for a collar or something

[twilit scroll]

I stopped questing so I can wait for hotfixes

[indigo beacon]

pain

[twilit scroll]

oh ok, that's a special sidequest

not even radiant ones

[stoic schooner]

Yeah but I mean the system is there. They just didn't bother implemeting the rest

[indigo beacon]

ikr? like the base is laid out. cmon...

[twilit scroll]

jesus christ is the game undercooked

[indigo beacon]

literally cyberpunk 2.0 but actually playable

no gamebreaking problems *yet

[twilit scroll]

let them make a life a thing again at least

cause the code aint there

[keen nimbus]

No way man. Cyberpunk 2077 was way better feature, design and system complete.

[twilit scroll]

cyberpunk also had spawn camping cops

that's why I refunded it

[indigo beacon]

im talking release date... full blown crashes in areas, riding on the side of buildings, npc's were just there t-posing most of time, half of shit was unstable.

[keen nimbus]

Yep, I am talking release date.

[lilac stump]

I think the devs wanted to make a movie, not a game

[indigo beacon]

then you must have been retarded level of lucky if you didnt have these issues

[keen nimbus]

It was shitshow for consoles for which I don't care. On PC I had two literal bugs that did not affect my enjoyment.

[indigo beacon]

yup... insane levels of luck

[twilit scroll]

Devs need to stop chasing ways to glaze and add more filling

[indigo beacon]

yeah most likely

[low thicket]

to be honest CP release was much better for me personally
and i had more fun in "broken" Cyberpunk than im having in S2

[twilit scroll]

Holocure has way more features than stalker 2

[indigo beacon]

at least they were funny lol

imagine riding on the side of arasaka tower

to the sky we go

[keen nimbus]

Cyberpunk2077 was amazing exprience on launch for me, I'd forgive it a lot of bugs if I encountered them. But Stalker 2 does not seem to offer anything beyond upgraded graphics.

[twilit scroll]

did anyone figure out the memory leaks after some hours of play?

[finite pelican]

Thank you to all the modders, with just a couple mods I had a really fun time!! Especially thank you to @rain finch and @honest glade !

[lilac stump]

yea I find myself sprinting from location to location, there is nothing between, no stalkers, no mutants, barely any anomalies. They havent even added aLife to the game. It feels like all the other stalker games had more to them than s2

[indigo beacon]

its there. just shit implementation

[low thicket]

the game is boring....you are not even pulled into the story....in CP after first 1hr i wanted to play more and more
in S2 ....not really

[twilit scroll]

that's what they claim, but people have datamined the game and found no offline alife portions

just spawn code

with alife name attached

[lilac stump]

you sure? it seems to me that NPCs just spawn in my vicinity, I havent seen a single patrol in the distance and the stalker spawns are always in 3

and no binoculars either

[errant spear]

No night vision either

[low thicket]

no activities

[lilac stump]

its such a disappoitment, it seems like they didnt even try, but hey at least we have super stuttery cinematic cutscenes sometimes

[twilit scroll]

night vision isn't even hard to make

just do an overlay

and say it's a helmet upgrade

[honest glade]

https://tenor.com/view/yvl-carti-yvl-playboi-carti-gif-5462242053412901306

[buoyant cloak]

Hi, I was looking around mods in nexus and decided to give it a try myself with the editing. First time doing it so I suppose its going to be hard but im stuck before even starting. Whats the usmap? I can't find anything clear googling.

[twilit scroll]

are you the chosen one to make a hunting mod

[desert nexus]

https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS can help you with a USMAP

[earnest gale]

is there a way to just reduce the UI size and not remove it?

[buoyant cloak]

You mean adding mutant parts?

[twilit scroll]

yes

[buoyant cloak]

I'll take a look thanks

[twilit scroll]

and can you add cooking too

[buoyant cloak]

That sounds far from the starting point hahaha

[twilit scroll]

and port the other 150 gamma.mods

you can do it modding jesus

[stoic schooner]

Here's a powershell script that tells you what's inside .pak files of your mods https://pastebin.com/4R9YYS6m
You only need to change the paths
Might be useful for quickly checking for possible mod conflicts
You need to have this installed https://github.com/trumank/repak
ChatGPT made it so don't bash me if it's shit

[twilit scroll]

wtf

gpt can make unpackers?

[stoic schooner]

ah nah I meant the script

[twilit scroll]

oh ok

[desert nexus]

GPT can code. It codes like a drunk toddler, but I guess you can technically call it code

[honest glade]

maybe when GSC releases the SDK in 2 years

[compact snow]

seems like carry weight mods bug your game? I carry 20kg but I'm barely walking

anyone knows a fix?

[twilit scroll]

drink hercules

[buoyant goblet]

Press X

[twilit scroll]

[buoyant goblet]

Are you actually walking?

[compact snow]

no

just really really slow

like im overweight

[desert nexus]

Lay off the sausage

[twilit scroll]

sosig

post a picture of your inventory

[worn temple]

The carry weight mods don't really fix thresholds because there's more happening than just the initial config afaik

[twilit scroll]

@radiant ledge did reinstalling steam help

why does vanilla stalker 2 feel like skyrim with 200 mods

[radiant ledge]

got sidetracked, will do it literally right now and check in a few...hopefully steam will find the game installed and won't ask me to check it for 15 minutes or some dumb shit

[twilit scroll]

you can add games later

[radiant ledge]

wdym? How will I launch it then?

[twilit scroll]

as external

[viscid thunder]

Will it ever be possible to make it so opening PDA/Inventory doesn't stop you dead anymore and let's you at least keep walking? The game stops for you but not for everything else in the background

[radiant ledge]

does it work like that? O_O

[twilit scroll]

you can add any exe to steam

as an external

[radiant ledge]

yeah, but the game has steam drm checks, no?

[twilit scroll]

then do recalibrate

or whatever it was called

file check or something

[radiant ledge]

yeah...goddamn it 🥲

[twilit scroll]

integrity check

[pearl sentinel]

is there a way to modify uasset blueprints?

[polar perch]

Pretty sure there's a way. But I've not found it yet. Currently testing static 3d models, skinned 3d models, and materials

[pearl sentinel]

i can see its parameters in fmodel, but cannot modify it :(

i wish it was as easy as just modifying the values in fmodel

[buoyant cloak]

How big should the usmap file be?

[compact snow]

I recorded the issue with carry weight mods, maybe someone can help me fix it. im walking more or less, no matter what.

[honest glade]

did you de-equip and equip again your armour?

[hushed slate]

Anybody had any luck in extending the spawn distance of npcs?

I've tried altering/packing a few files but nothing has stuck. The lack of alife wouldn't be so bad if the current system didn't spawn shit in your lap.

[compact snow]

^yes

i changed the artifact to differ the carry weight as well

[honest glade]

no the spawn distance has some conflicts with files we still don't have I think, we have been testing this and until now it hasn't worked

we either wait for GSC or someone magically figures something

[earnest gale]

is there a way to just reduce the UI size and not remove it?